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Biological immortality

>>7078661
I'm not sure if a cathedral tank is supposed to sound good in theory or be bad in practice.

>>7078661

>>7078669
How is that stupid in practice? True immortality is impossibly unlikely, so death wouldn't cease to be a normal part of life, it would just be less common.

>>7078684

>>7078692

>>7078697

>>7078697
I could watch this all day.

>>7078689
Overcrowding?

>>7078668
that particular implementation might be stupid, but i don't think having a HUD for your life is necessarily stupid

>>7078700
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296E57CxNw4

>>7078702
Eh, we'd just have to impose a birth queue or lottery. If we can get to that level in tech as to have immortality, we can certainly turn fertility on and off on command.

>>7078711
Why didn't this become a thing?

>>7078711
>that video
>that subtle racism
>that music
>that quality of video
>that black and white
10/10

>>7078661
>things that sound nice in theory but are utterly stupid in practice

Solar freaking roadways.

everything about solar freaking roadways.

(yes, I know it's been covered already by tons of people but it still deserves mockery)

>>7078714
>implying what you said isn't a dumb idea

>>7078711
that's pretty clever actually, if i'm ever rich enough I'll have this.

>>7078723
I could see the units being useful in some small scale operations, like on a pathway around a campus, although they'd mainly just be decorative things and not be expected to draw power to the mains.

>>7078734
Good thinking, but the idea of putting solar panels that people can walk on isn't nearly the biggest issue with "Solar Freaking Roadways" lol

>>7078669
Agreed. Biological immortality would most likely be a bad evolutionary tactic for our species.

>>7078702
The evolutionary perpetuation of our DNA would likely be halted. Motivations for innovation would change. Old and archaic thought would be more difficult to eradicate because generations world not die off.

>>7078674
>I'm not sure if a cathedral tank is supposed to sound good in theory or be bad in practice.

Well it's theoretically useful for sneaking up on Christians. In practice, however, stonemasonry is largely a lost art.

Integrating computers into the human brain. For example extreme virtual reality or simple computer enhancement of the brain.

>>7078721
>>that subtle racism
???

>>7078714
>birth queue or lottery.
In the Ringworld books, Larry Niven portrays humans as becoming "luckier" because they have a birth lottery, and somehow this leads to Darwinian selection for luck.

>>7078716
>Why didn't this become a thing?
Solution in search of a problem.

>>7078898
I was refering to the fact 1950 america was racist as fuck.

>>7078913
>I was refering to the fact 1950 america was racist as fuck.

Sure.
And people were less obese on average back then.
Why don't you mention that?

>>7078904
That is unlikely though. Luck is most likely a function of perception. Humans looking at a skewed or partial set of data points to determine the statistical chance of an event.

>>7078922
>That is unlikely though.
Personally, I've always thought it was impossible.
Well, maybe there's some underlying mechanism by which random factors could be not so random, but I've always just taken it as proof that Niven was a stoner.

>>7078739
Is it a problem with resources or do you feel it's a problem with the amount of energy generated vs the amount needed to create said roadways?

>>7078931
It is possible that people could influence events even like lotteries by methods unknown to us currently... and therefore we could perpetuate a proclivity or innate ability to do that.

>>7078933
Both, considering that replacing the world's roadways with these things would be incomprehensibly expensive. Not only that, but there's literally no framework to transport the power.

>>7078947
You could bury the power cabling just below the new road surface.
What keeps leaping to my mind is that solar cells need a transparent surface. Wouldn't a good transparent surface be very smooth and provide poor traction?

>>7078971
>You could bury the power cabling just below the new road surface.

It's not the issue of insulating the cables or even laying them, it's stepping down the power to lower voltages and transporting it.

Thunderf00t has a really good video on solar roadways where he debunks the viability of solar roadways to the point where it's almost overkill. A rare hit from a Youtube channel that's lately been flooded with shit about the evils of feminism and religion instead of actual science videos.

>>7078982
>transporting it.
This is why I've always seen solar roofs as he obvious application.

>>7078986
He addresses that too. It's just a much better idea to put them on roofs and maybe on the /sides/ of roads, just like people have already been doing for years.

>>7078726
How is it a dumb idea? The only objection is "muh free will", which is a dumb objection. The right to have children whenever you want isn't a fundamental right.

>>7078702
>>7078876
We breed to keep our species alive. If we never die, there's no need to breed. Eventually birth rates will decline till they reach zero. Population will start to decline as people die from accidents and diseases.

>>7079109
>If we never die, there's no need to breed.

Lol, only /sci/ would think that people will voluntarily forgo sex if our species achieves negligible senescence.

>>7079169
Idiocracy

>>7079169
>sex means reproduction

Let me guess, you grew up in a place with "abstinence education."

>>7078684
That... that doesn't seem stupid at all.

I almost want one now.

>>7078661
free space holograms. We can't make holograms that float in mid-air without lasers that are powerful enough to ionize air(which in turn causes air pollution) or magic.

>>7078697
You know theres no way those guys got out to clean that up either

>>7078714
>we can certainly turn fertility on and off on command
But people won't like that. Think how popular the politician who offers to let people have the freedom to choose if and when they want to have children would be.

>>7078661
Solar power plants and wind farms. And curved tv screens.

>>7079626
>>7079109

Not the anon from before, but holy shit are you disconnected for reality. Most people who have kids aren't thinking of passing on their genes or experiences. Most do it because it is one of the most rewarding experiences in life, and because they WANT to be a father/mother. Neither of those desires go away with immortality.

>>7078714
Yeah.... no. I don't want to live in a world where the government controls how my body can function.

>fertility taxes, if you can procreate you must pay money for the ability to do so
>reproductive organs removed or "shut off" at birth
> in order to use them you must be deemed acceptable by the Federal Reproductive Bureau

>>7079943
I live in an area of single young mothers that's a repeating cycle. At least this would solve that
Would someone plz think of da children!

>>7079948
are they rape victims? if not then it's their own fault for perpetuating the cycle

>>7079961
If you're a determinist you blame their upbringing and environment. But no they weren't raped

>>7079980
If you're a determinist and choose not to blame them, you can not blame their upbringing and environment either.

>>7079923

Yes, people want to have kids, but WHEN do they want to have kids? In civilized places, it's not about having kids as soon as possible, it's about having them as LATE as practical. Women especially have kids when they feel like they are running out of time, biologically speaking.

But that all changes if you have biological immortality. If people have children at age 60 instead of age 30, you've already sliced the birth rate in half. And I'm guessing many would end up waiting much longer or not having them at all, since it's always an option later on.

>>7078661
We will tackle climate change.
We will deal with overpopulation
We will establish a martian colony
The age of steam is over

>>7078939
It's because people have survive "lucky encounters" are skewed because the ones who didn't survive are dead

"I'm so lucky that car missed me by 2cm" is over shining the 9 "that car hit me and im dead" people

>>7078702
Only allow people to reproduce if one of the parents agree to be executed afterwards.

>>7078702
The richer people get, the less likely they tend to be to have kids. This means that overpopulation is over-estimated as a problem.

>>7078931
Niven's settings have psychic powers as a thing, because it's science FICTION. The heritable component of "luck" was explicitly a psionic effect.

>>7078711
well,not bad idea. also sweet music
>>7078669
this ^ (will kill the progress and evolution)

>>7078661
>the XXI century
>Roman numerals